Spot on
Chris Cassone features an item that explains just how the conservative movement is ruining itself (Hat tip: The Other McCain):
How do you defeat the conservative movement? From the inside. You put up a war hero like John McCain, whose personal courage can't be questioned but who has so little respect for our Constitution, he would have shut down the 1st Amendment 60 days before an election. You let people like Jihad-sympathizing Grover Norquist dominate gatherings like CPAC, because he can raise money, and then you send boys off to war behind leaders too timid to call Islam the enemy. You lionize a flag-waiving, gun-toting, beautiful mom, like Sarah Palin, who loves her country, but is too shallow to understand that endorsing global warming John McCain and shouting "drill, baby, drill" just do not compute. You have Fox News tell us just enough of the truth to garner our sympathies, but then you have Glen Beck calling Geert Wilders a fascist for exposing Islam, (and you watch Rupert move his headquarters to Dubai.) You ask for a limited government, but then you steer clear of the very social conservatism, the values vote, that would make limited government possible.Sadly, we can't be sure even Andrew Breitbart's network is the best thing we have either. But this is a well spoken point of how conservatives are making fools out of themselves.
In short, you muddy the waters, you weaken the cure, you promote cowardice in the ranks. You make people think that the Republican party is your last best hope, that Fox News is "the only thing we've got," that above all, we just need to put up someone who can win--even if, um, that person doesn't represent our cause very well. You create heroes who aren't really heroes, and leaders who aren't really leaders, and then you fail to identify them for what they are -- traitors. You look with contempt on a "purity test," because that, after all, would make the conservative cause true, simple, and victorious. The enemy of the socialist, the radical environmentalist, the globalist, and the corporate monopolist is mental and moral clarity. You pretend that you want another Ronald Reagan, but if someone rises in the ranks, with Reagan's clear moral vision, you make sure he's defeated in the primary.
Labels: immigration, islam, political corruption, RINOs, United States
